UT adds text tip line to lift campus security

6:02 AM,
Aug. 23, 2013

Written by

Zach Dennis
| Knoxville News Sentinel

The University of Tennessee Police Department on Monday announced a new tool to give students a quick link to help. Tip411 is a national anonymous text messaging program that was created as a way to help spark a dialogue between police and the sender.

The program is Internet-based and allows anyone to send a text message to police containing a tip and begin an anonymous dialogue with ...